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The investigation is chronicled in Rosemary Sullivan's English-language book, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation. [71] Evidence was also claimed to have been found that Anne Frank's father later knew this but did not reveal it after the war. [69]
During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, Anne Frank received a blank diary as one of her presents on 12 June 1942, her 13th birthday. [8] [9] According to the Anne Frank House, the red, checkered autograph book which Anne used as her diary was actually not a surprise, since she had chosen it the day before with her father when browsing a bookstore near her home. [9]
The Anne Frank House (Dutch: Anne Frank Huis) is a writer's house and biographical museum dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank. The building is located on a canal called the Prinsengracht , close to the Westerkerk , in central Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
Anne mentioned several times in her writings that her sister Margot Frank also kept a diary, but no trace of Margot's diary was ever found. After spending time in both Westerbork and Auschwitz , Anne and her elder sister Margot were eventually transported to Bergen-Belsen , which was swept by a massive typhus epidemic that began in the camp in ...
Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal began searching for Silberbauer in 1958, upon being challenged by Austrian Holocaust deniers to prove that Anne Frank existed. One teenaged Holocaust denier stated that, if Anne Frank's arresting officer were found and admitted to it, he would change his mind. [13]
71 years ago today, Anne Frank was captured by the Nazi Gestapo in Amsterdam. The Frank family escaped from Germany in 1942, out of fear of being sent to a Nazi concentration camp. With the help ...
Otto Heinrich Frank (12 May 1889 – 19 August 1980) was the father of Anne Frank. He edited and published the first edition of her diary in 1947 (subsequently known in English as The Diary of a Young Girl ) and advised on its later theatrical and cinematic adaptations.
The story of Anne Frank, the Jewish teenager who hid in a cramped attic with her family during the Nazi occupation in Amsterdam, is widely known, and amid the atrocities of the Holocaust, Anne’s ...